Olympics

December 31, 1985|By Russ White

SURPLUS. Community workers in Los Angeles are hoping to deprive street gangs of new members by involving teen-agers in sports clubs financed by surplus from the 1984 Olympic Games. The Community Youth Gang Services agency plans to organize leagues for flag football, volleyball, basketball and other sports at parks in six economically depressed neighborhoods. The group will start with a grant of $349,990 from the foundation distributing the money from the Olympics. The grant is the biggest so far awarded by the Los Angeles Organizing Committee's Amateur Athletic Foundation, which plans to spend $6 million to $8 million a year of the Olympic surplus.